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What is a common use of the system prompt in a chat model API?

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  1. Storing the user's password
  2. Retraining the model overnight
  3. Giving the model a role and ground rules

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References

  1. Claude API Docs: Prompting best practices platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices Checked 2026-10-10.

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